XenForo 2.3.4 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.3 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
Directly from your admin control panel
If you are a XenForo Cloud customer, your upgrade will be scheduled automatically.
Some of the changes in XF 2.3.4 include:
- Include embed.php in hashes.json
- Fix error thrown when feed entry is missing an ID
- Use AbstractCollection for type hint on addContentToBookmarks method
- Fix deprecated usage of str_replace with API scopes
- Improve PHP 8.4 compatibility
- Output hsla in the color picker when an alpha channel is present
- Ensure URLs are valid when analyzing image usage
- Coerce nestable group to a number before peforming strict comparison
- Gracefully handle guest username and style variation containing invalid UTF-8
- Attempt to work-around abysmal Firefox form field retention heuristics
- Gracefully handle when an avatar cannot be processed
- Allow changing style variation when the previously selected style is forced to the default style
- Increase date input width further to accomodate Firefox icon clipping
- Fix editor autofocus behavior when in BBCode mode
- Add a note about some permissions not being applicable to guests
- Fix triggering Facebook embeds for document
- Fix calculation of local load time from navigation timing API
- Fix behavior of preview buttons
- Consider read-only number-box inputs as disabled
- Make required and recommended function checks more robust
- Allow null unique ID when enqueuing a job later
- Make report creation notifications easier to extend
- Attempt to work around aggressive Firefox auto-complete heuristics when editing a user
- Fix broken JS handlers when loading comments via AJAX
- Fix an issue with editing newly translated phrases
- Split ExifReader library out of attachment manager bundle
- Attempt to work around aggressive Firefox auto-complete heuristics on control panel index
- Fix number input buttons when step is set to any
- Fix some icon usage analysis issues when editing and deleting editor drop-downs and BBCodes
- Only record icon usage for active BBCodes and editor dropdowns
- Omit itemid microdata attribute when there is no valid user
- Ensure all control panel functionality is covered by permissions
- Handle invalid multiquote input more gracefully
- Attempt to avoid featured content carousel pager text overlap
- Only try to remove double quotes from URL strings once
- Set default color picker color to white instead of transparent
- Fix some issues with the JS icon renderer and BBCode previews
- Handle invalid session IDs more gracefully
- Do not mark unhidden usernames as aria-hidden
- Fix direction of back arrow on RTL languages
- Improve text node handling in XF.setupHtmlInsert
- Ignore Thumbs.db in style archive validator
- Fix structured list icon end cell padding
- Fix an issue with deferred resize event listener after autofocus
- Skip any file duplicates when importing banned emails
- Mark multiple consecutive asterisks as an invalid term word on MySQL full-text searches
- Make the default table collation configurable
- Fix calculation of report closure notifiable users
- Ensure PayPal products are created with a unique ID.
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- PAGE_CONTAINER
- approval_queue_macros
- carousel.less
- core_input.less
- fancybox.less
- helper_attach_upload
- lightbox.less
- message_macros
- profile_post_macros
- structured_list.less
As always, new releases of XenForo are free to download for all customers with active licenses. You may now upgrade from your admin control panel or grab the new version from the customer area.
Please note that XenForo 2.3 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.
The following are minimum requirements:
- PHP 7.2 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
- MySQL 5.7 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
- All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.3.
- Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.2.
Some of the changes in XF 2.3.3 include:
- Fix select-to-quote handler error on soft-deleted threads
- Ignore port if Redis host appears to be a file path
- Fix a few cases where hashes were concatenated instead of passed to router
- Fix flickering issue with JS icon renderer
- Fix expandable content transition class callback
- Use correct finder when looking up Stripe subscriber IDs
- Do not attempt to set RSS feed language if no language code is set
- Check if job table exists before attempting to sync structure
- Fix issues serializing nestable elements which contain unrelated lists
- Adjust some automatic alert read-marking behaviors
- Adjust offset of focus-visible tab outline
- Re-enable caching for tag edit overlay
- Fix error handling for fetching/creating PayPal products and plans
- Fix determining locale from language code for string manipulation
- Ensure points phrase is used in trending weights.
- Optimize string transliteration performance
- Override some missing phrases for token inputs.
- Reduce trending content widget queries
- Fix embedding Imgur galleries and applying JS states
- Romanize heading anchors
- Do not force romanization for category anchors
- Fix merging reactions with multiple source reactions from deleted users
- Do not cache report overlays
- Fix Tagify filtering out non-exact matches unexpectedly
- Set 1:1 aspect-ratio on connected account provider icons
- Use the editorButtonSelectedBg property for active editor button backgrounds
- Fix DM icon clipping on desktop Safari
- Fix phrase method casing in icon option handler
- Perform client-size image optimization even when no maximum image width/height is set
- Fix checking if Rocket Loader is disabled in the middle of an upgrade
- Throw an error when attempting to recursively load config file
- Fix string style property variations support for properties without assets enabled
- Prevent double logging of moderator changes for threads when editing first post
- Adjust width of inline time inputs
- Check private use TLDs when determining if a host is local
- Fix some issues with appending filter rows
- Use XF.setupHtmlInsert for filter AJAX responses
- Allow passing HTMLElement objects to alerts
- Fix support for alternative icon variants in custom BB codes
- Fix fetching default avatar when templater style is not set
- Address some phrases which reference conversations
- Handle unexpected values in cookie consent cookie
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- PAGE_CONTAINER
- account_banner
- app_nav.less
- conversation_message_macros
- core_block.less
- core_button.less
- core_input.less
- core_tab.less
- editor_override.less
- helper_js_global
- member_view
- passkeys_macros
- post_macros
- profile_post_macros
- tag_macros
- token_input
Current requirements
Please note that XenForo 2.3 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.
The following are minimum requirements:
- PHP 7.2 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
- MySQL 5.7 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
- All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.3.
- Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.2.
XenForo 2.3.2 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.3 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.
One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.3.2
Directly from your admin control panel
If you are a XenForo Cloud customer, your upgrade will be scheduled automatically.
Some of the changes in XF 2.3.2 include:
- Make PCRE character class check more robust.
- Do not attempt to redefine UTF-8 string shim functions if they already exist
- Rename search forum node type handler as expected
- Fix utf8_isASCII return type
- Fix an issue where the batch size for search rebuilds could grow unbounded
- Strip BBCode from trending content article displays
- Fix a regression with PWA orientation/screen rotation
- Set recommended PHP version dynamically
- Fix profile post position tracking
- Use absolute URLs in approval item emails
- Fix behavior of API keys with all scopes allowed
- Fix thread context support for featured and trending widgets
- Apply inline style to document.head correctly
- Fix type error for file clean counts.
- Attempt to have Cloudflare Rocket Loader automatically ignore scripts
- Don't try to ping IndexNow if no API key is set
- Gate search engine indexing settings for threads behind their own permission
- Fix error on shared IPs list when matching user has been deleted
- Allow the variation menu to open above fixed notices
- Fix saving permissions from the edit user page
- Fix passing \DateTime objects into \XF\Language::getDateTimeParts
- Use XF custom events for overlay and transition events
- Hydrate user relations when setting up base user
- Redirect to the first active option group when viewing an option
- Fix behavior of search short-name conversion
- Handle older SMTP option values more gracefully
- Fix responsive sidebar margins
- If a user can see the thread created by a report, respect their auto watch preference
- Mark threads as nofollow if they are non-indexable
- Support WebP images when uploading images for featured content
- Address several issues with XF.ajax
- Address even more one-click upgrade issues when caching is enabled
- Fix attachment list filter bar dates being displayed in wrong timezone
- Fix using hotkeys to submit a message in the plain text editor
- Fix event handling on auto-complete autosubmission
- Fix importing webp smilies
- Fix implicit join behavior of finder order clauses
- Fix addon_get_install_data code event description
- Only process the color scheme mixin when variations are enabled
- Position BBCode quote expansion link at bottom of quote
- Fix some issues when toggling variations when an active variation is selected
- Pass handler in params when rendering thread edit extra data templates
- Include type data definitions when rendering thread edit extra data templates
The following public templates have had changes:
Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.
- PAGE_CONTAINER
- app_body.less
- bb_code.less
- embed_view
- featured_content_edit
- helper_js_global
- helper_thread_options
- page_view
- payment_initiate_twocheckout
- profile_post_macros
- service_worker_offline
- setup.less
- style_variation_macros
- thread_list_macros
- trending_content_item_thread
- two_step_totp
Current requirements
Please note that XenForo 2.3 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.
The following are minimum requirements:
- PHP 7.2 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
- MySQL 5.7 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
- All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.3.
- Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.2.